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| Revelation from the Gods through the sages (Sruti); 4 Vedas (Rig, Yajur, Sama, Athara); Smriti; Brahmin Caste; Human experience through Yoga |
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Theology: God without qualities; God with qualities; God with and without qualities; God with regard to the world (Ishta, Trimurti)
Cosmology: Worlds (Multiple (, Moral, Middle, Training ground, Maya Illusion, Lila)
Eschatology: Continual reincarnation until Night of Brahma |
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| 4 Stages of Life (student, householder, forest dweller, renunciate); 4 Life stations/Varnas (Shudras, Vaishyas, Kshatriya, Brahmin) |
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| Nature of Consciousness; Process of growth; Consequences of belief in Karma; Stages of consciousness (pleasures of the senses, then social achievements, then duty, then infinite liberation) |
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| Different purpose for each stage; Leave imperfection behind; Moksha |
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| Four Yogas (Jnana, Bhakti, Karma, Raja) |
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| The Buddha's teachings (4 Noble Truths); Buddha's life experience; Meditation experience; Mahayana and Vajrayana texts; 3 Schools (Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana) |
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Theology: God is uncreated; Nirvana
Cosmology: Three Marks of Existence (Dukkha, Anicca, Anatta); Cause and Effect
Eschatology: Focus on present suffering |
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| 3 Marks of Existence; 3 Main Schools; People (buddhas and arhats); Transmigration of Souls |
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Faculties: 5 Skandas (Body, Sensations, Thoughts, Feelings, General Consciousness); Anatta
States: Dukkha; Tanha; 3 poisons (Delusion, Craving, Hostility) |
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| End dukkha; Reach Nirvana; become an arhat or buddha |
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| 4 Noble Truths (there is dukkha, caused by tanha, which can be stopped, by the 8-fold path); Approach; Wandering or the Path?; 8-Fold Path (Right Knowledge, Apsiration, Speech, Behavior, Livelihood, Effort, Mindfulness, Absorption) |
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| Confucianism Epistemology |
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| Chinese and Confucian experience; Teachings of Confucius; Spontaneous Tradition; Deliberate Tradition |
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| No developed metaphysics; Heaven and Earth in an independent continuum; Earth more significant than Heaven |
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| Confucianism Anthropology |
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| Humanity as a collection of social roles; Self only in the context of relationships with others |
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Faculties: Not very elaborative; Hsin
States: Selfishness OR sympathy and empathy |
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| To create social cohesion; Become a Chun Tzu; become worthy of partnership with heaven |
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| Oppose individualism; Five Values of Deliberate Tradition (Jen, Chun Tzu, Li, Te, Wen) |
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| Experience of Lao Tzu in his teachings; Historicity; Teachings of other Great Taoist Writers |
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Theology: Tao is ultimate reality (1st sense); pantheon of deities (RT)
Cosmology: Tao is way of created universe (2nd sense); Relativity of Opposites |
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| Tao is way of human life (3rd sense); humans are not self-enclosed, but not social constructs; life and death complementary cycles |
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Faculties: Senses, emotions, mind cluttered with distractions to be emptied and filled with Tao
States: emotionally disturbed or calm; or joy and power of the Tao |
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| Harmonize self with Tao (1st sense); experience Tao; gain knowledge of Tao (3rd sense) |
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| Live balanced with Tao (3rd sense); 3 Schools (Philosophical, Vitalizing, Religious); 5 General Means (follow teacher, embrace humility, naturalism, being natural and embracing simplicity, maximizing Te); Maximizing Te (efficiently using Te, augmenting Te, Taoist priest gather and pass Te) |
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| No sacred books; oral, artistic, ceremonial, ritual transmission; lived experience; priests and priestesses |
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Theology: monotheistic; pluralistic; unknowable, approachable, personal, all-knowing, loving and merciful, beyond gender
Cosmology: visible (physical) and invisible (spiritual) realities; mystical power; Spirit Beings (divinities and spirits)
Eschatology: spirit world is the hereafter |
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| People are God's children at center of creation; ontological, not ethical fall |
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Faculties: Body and senses (destroyed by death); Spirit (continues); Heart (varies in purity)
States: struggling, wrestling, desperation and sorrow; purity of heart, humility, trust and faith; peace and love; praise of, gratitude and thanksgiving to God |
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| Spiritually approach God; live ethically |
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| Belief embodied in rituals; Rites of Passage; Rituals around death; communal religiosity; reverence for sacred places and objects; magic and witchcraft; ethical behavior; practice of medicine |
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